Address
Mt.Stromlo & Siding Spring
Observatories Institute of Advanced Studies,
The Australian National University,
Private Bag,
Weston Creek Post Office, ACT2611,
Australia
Biographical Data
Birthdate & Place: 28 October
1946, Kraslice, Czechoslovakia
Nationalities: Australian and British
Languages: English and French
Marital Status: Married (Patricia
Anne-Marie), son Igor Roland, born August 1977.
Education
1968 BA Honours in Natural Science,
Wadham College, Oxford University.
1973 MA (Oxon), PhD (Manchester).
Advisor: Prof. J.
Meaburn,
Thesis: "The Temperature Structure of two High Density Galactic
H II Regions"
Career Milestones
1973 October Post-Doctoral
Research Assistant, Manchester University.
1974 October Selected by the
Royal Astronomical Society as UK Young Astronomer
to attend the opening
of the Anglo-Australian Telescope.
1975 August Research Fellow at
the Australian National University.
1975 September Member of the
International Astronomical Union.
1979 November Fellow at the
Australian National University.
1982 March Australian Project
Scientist to the STARLAB project.
1983 June-AugustVisiting
Astronomer to Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena,Chile
1983 December Senior Fellow at
the Australian National University.
1985 April Project Scientist to
the ENDEAVOUR project.
1986 July Science Team Leader to
the LYMAN project. Visiting Scientist at the Space Telescope Science
Institute, Baltimore, USA.
1989 June Visiting Professor at
the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
1994 July Appointed Professor at
the Australian National University.
1994 Vice President IAU
Commission #34, ISM
1996 Elected Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
Honours and Awards
1983 April Pawsey Medal of the
Australian Academy of Sciences for outstanding research in the
Natural Sciences by a researcher younger than 36.
1996 Elected Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
Professional Societies
International Astronomical Union,
Astronomical Society of
Australia,
American Astronomical Society,
Russian Astronomical
Society.
Membership of Editorial
Boards
Member of the Board of Editors,
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1990-1993.
Member of the Board of Editors, Astrophysics and Space Science
1994-1997 Member of the Board of Editors, Publications of the
Astronomical Society of Australia 1994-1997.
Publications:
Has co-edited one book, 166
papers in refereed journals and 56 papers in conference proceedings
of which 35 were invited.